Saavedra Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Saavedra Rock (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Rock
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
W of Kopaitic Island, Duroch Islands, off Cape Legoupil, Trinity Peninsula, was charted by CAE, 1947-48, and called Isla Mayor Saavedra after Mayor de InfanterĂa (later Tte Coronel) Eduardo Saavedra Rojas, of the Chilean Army, who accompanied President González Videla to the Antarctic in 1948 and who later commanded an army detachment aboard the patrol ship Lautaro on CAE, 1950-51 (Chile. DNH chart 503, 1948). Isla Saavedra, Islote Saavedra (Chile. DNH chart 503, 1951; 1959). Saavedra Rock (USOO chart 6650, 1963; APC, 1986, p.4). Saavedra Island (Halpern, 1964, map Fig.2, p.335).
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